US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 15 for "Maintenance device and inkjet recording apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,806, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Maintenance device and inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Yiquan Nie (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Somete (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance device includes a cap, an air supply port, and a suppression member. The cap is attached to a nozzle surface of an inkjet head. The air supply port is provided in the cap. The suppression member is provided between the air supply port and the nozzle surface, and has a first gap from the air supply port and a second gap from the nozzle surface. The suppression member has one or...